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- Radio Interview: Is Capitalism Killing Our Climate?‘Planet Haliburton’ is a twice-monthly program on Canoe-FM in Haliburton Ontario. Hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore interviewed Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus on August 14, 2017.---READ-->>
- A climate denier’s guide to viewing the eclipseScience, schmience. Now the elitists want us to buy special glasses. Don’t fall for their lies!---READ-->>
- Report shows climate records set in 2016. Yes, the world is warming!The new State of the Climate report confirms that 2016 was as the warmest year in 137 years of record-keeping. Other climate indicators that set new records include greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level, and sea surface temperature.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2017Six new books on climate change and neoliberalism, movement strategy, surviving the Anthropocene, science and religion, Gaia, and energy security---READ-->>
- Video: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and ecosocialismWe now face the challenge of changing the world in the context of impending environmental disaster on a global scale. That’s reality in our time.---READ-->>
- Al Gore’s Convenient Infomercial for Green CapitalismAl Gore, the perfect spokesperson for the liberal approach to climate change, simply cannot see that neoliberal logic prevents our current institutions from addressing the crisis.---READ-->>
- Marx and Engels on ecology: A reply to radical criticsPaul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster answer left-green critics of ecological Marxism with a detailed study of what the founders of historical materialism actually wrote and thought about humanity’s present and future relationship to the earth---READ-->>
- New research shows irreversible changes in England in the AnthropoceneScientists find irreversible changes that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history, caused by new human-made materials---READ-->>
- UN report: Billions lack access to safe water and sanitationEvery year, 361,000 children under 5 years die due to diseases caused by poor sanitation and contaminated water---READ-->>
- To win climate justice we must hit Trump where it hurtsSouth African activist Patrick Bond says we need to generate international solidarity for climate justice by imposing popular sanctions against Trump and US corporations.---READ-->>
- Angus interview: How can we save the planet?We must understand how can we slow down changes that have already begun, which changes we can reverse, and how we can adapt those we can’t stop---READ-->>
- Growing food in the post-truth eraAgribusiness giants cause food insecurity and environmental degradation, while promoting the myth that industrial agriculture can feed the world better than small-scale, family farms.---READ-->>
- Les Misérables: Metabolic rift in the sewers of ParisVictor Hugo’s masterpiece includes a powerful attack on the urban wastefulness that steals nutrients from the land. Like Marx and Engels, he based his critique on the work of the chemist Justus von Liebig.---READ-->>
- ‘A Redder Shade of Green’ explores the intersections of science and socialismMartin Empson says Ian Angus’s new book makes the case for a renewed synthesis between science and the humanities, using the insights offered by both to develop a strategy for action.---READ-->>
- Anthropocene scientists reply to criticsA comprehensive response to scientific objections to formally recognizing a new unit of geological time shows that the Anthropocene cannot be dismissed as a scientific fad---READ-->>
- Essential Debates at the
Intersections of Science and SocialismIn the Introduction to his new book, Ian Angus says ecosocialism must be based on a careful and deliberate synthesis of Marxist social science and Earth System science — a twenty-first century rebirth of scientific socialism.---READ-->> - We Need a Much Bigger Leap! John Bellamy Foster on Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is Not Enough’There is much to admire in Naomi Klein’s new book, but she underestimates the danger posed by Trumpism, and doesn’t pose a real alternative. She calls for a Leap, but it isn’t high enough or far enough.---READ-->>
- Ten Theses on Farming and DiseaseThe corporate business model helps pathogens and pests to spread across the world. The only way to stop the next deadly pandemic is to end capitalist agribusiness as we know it.---READ-->>
- Trump, climate and the breakdown of multilateralismFor social movements and climate justice campaigners, the US abandonment of the agreement is disappointing, but there is also a unity in understanding that the future of humanity on this planet does not rest on leaders alone.---READ-->>
- An interesting but flawed take on the AnthropoceneMartin Empson says The Shock of the Anthropocene is a interesting account of the global environmental crisis, but it fails to offer to offer any alternative to the current system---READ-->>